Posted on December 1 at 9:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hmm...I read "Flight" and liked it. Hard to imagine as a play though.

At least you went to a lot of parties in college. I spent a lot of my time working. I did, however, see a lot of theater, including Kurt Vonnegut's "Happy Birthday, Wanda June." good stuff...

On Making decisions

Posted on November 11 at 12:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The radio station my co-workers listen to plays a horrible cover of "99 Red Balloons" by a band called Goldfinger that makes my brain hurt. I actually kinda like the original version (German and English) by Nena, but it was not a song begging for a remake, especially by this band.

On Slow music

Posted on October 18 at 7:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)

One of my supervisors had a ticket to that game and gave it up because he "just wasn't feeling that well." He's not going to live this one down for along time.

Also, way too many things on SWPL apply to me. I'm even raising a bilingual child. At least I like geeky things like comic books and cartoons to partially make up for my love of many white things.

On Feeling wizardly

Posted on October 15 at 12:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I've always had a weakness for The Breakfast Club.

And I was wondering how that Bishop Allen movie was. I really like the band.

On “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”

Posted on September 11 at 9:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Speaking of movies I could only see once, have you ever seen Terry Gilliam's "Tideland"? He's one of my favorite directors and I can watch most of his movies over and over, and though "Tideland" was excellent in a lot of ways, it was so dark I can't imagine watching it again.

"The Big Lebowski", however, actually gets better and better with each viewing.

On Watching “The Last Mistress”

Posted on September 11 at 9:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Personally, my favorite words is callipygian, which you'll just have to look up if you don't the meaning because I'm not going to define it on a wholesome blog like this.

And my summer at St. Paul's very much changed my life. I went from painfully shy and self-conscious to self-confident and, well, practically shameless, over the course of that summer. If there's a good sense of the word "shameless," I mean it that way. I simply don't get embarrassed very easily. I can't even imagine what kind of person I'd be socially or academically without my summer there (or my subsequent summer there as an intern, which was equally enjoyable).

On In love with words

Posted on September 6 at 1:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I've never seen "Footloose", but I have seen "Friday the 13th", which features Kevin Bacon a good four years before "Footloose."

On Film capsules

Posted on September 2 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I could never justify cooking a lot when I was single (now I cook nearly every night of the week). But when I was single, I enjoyed cooking a big, freezable meal on Sunday evenings. That gave me plenty of time to think things through, and whatever I couldn't eat myself I froze for later and/or used for leftovers the next day or so. This works especially well for chili and homemade soups (this was primarily a winter ritual). I'm a firm believer that everyone should learn to make chili, particularly if you live in northern climes.

On And I cook, too

Posted on August 6 at 3:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I too read "Moby Dick" on my own 6 or 7 years ago. I often wonder how I would have liked it had I read it for school. As it was, my favorite part was learning about the whaling industry during that time period.

"Atlas Shrugged" is not that bad. I've known people who have essentially interpreted it as a female fantasy/empowerment novel. As for the attacking Christianity, it's actually the complete lack of mentioning religion that, in my opinion, produces the biggest flaw in the book.

I've been reading the complete works of Dickens over the years and I have one complete novel left. Once that's done I'll have the unfinished "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and I'll be done with the fiction.

On Summer Reading

Posted on August 2 at 11:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Hmmm, I've been resisting Facebook for a while (and I work in Cambridge, where it was born!), but you've almost convinced me. Like you, I'm the guy who's kept in touch with everybody. But there a few people who have dropped off the face of the earth, so I wonder if I'll see them on there.

On Acquiring online friends